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Former Ohio State Commit Dylan Raiola Ready To Face Buckeyes · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, October twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixth them your host, tom Or The Nebraska game is today,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in thirty five days. Gonna be
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  Speaker 1: talking about that Nebraska day today. You gonna be doing
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  Speaker 1: it with some interviews with a couple faces you will
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  Speaker 1: probably recognize on the Nebraska side of things. Second will
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  Speaker 1: be Nebraska head coach Matt Ruhle, who you get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to hear from earlier in the week. He had
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  Speaker 1: another interview session, had some more interesting stuff to say,
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  Speaker 1: so you're going to get to hear from him, but
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  Speaker 1: you're also going to get to hear first from Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: freshman phenom quarterback Dylan Raiola, of course a former Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State commit. In name, Ohio State fans were very excited
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  Speaker 1: about it for quite a while, then very angry about
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  Speaker 1: it for a little while, and it seems like it's
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  Speaker 1: all worked out just fine. The Buck guys ended up
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  Speaker 1: with Aaron Nolan and Julian Saying in the class, so
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  Speaker 1: they came through with flying colors as well. In Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: obviously very happy to have Dylan Riola playing quarterback for them,
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  Speaker 1: but the ties to Ohio State well, they're hard to deny.
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  Speaker 1: He was committed obviously to Ohio State, attended three games
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  Speaker 1: in the Horseshoe during his recruiting prosum says, So does
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  Speaker 1: he know a lot of the guys on the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State roster?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know a lot of them, just star recruiting
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  Speaker 2: and everything. But it's a cool place. Never played there,
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  Speaker 2: always gret wanting to play there, So opportunities here.
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  Speaker 1: Riola is coming into this game off of the worst
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  Speaker 1: performance of his college career, a fifty six to seven
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  Speaker 1: loss to Indiana. Not a great day for him. What
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  Speaker 1: stood out to Dylan RelA after watching that.
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  Speaker 2: Film, Yeah, there's just little things here and there that
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  Speaker 2: that kind of kind of gets you in the big games.
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  Speaker 2: So I think just cleaning up the little things, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we have another opportunity this week to improve
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  Speaker 2: and go, you know, go.
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  Speaker 1: Want to know, pretty much every college football player that
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  Speaker 1: you can name was not only the best player on
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  Speaker 1: his high school football team, but probably the best player
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  Speaker 1: in his county that was a high school football player.
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  Speaker 1: When he was playing high school football. You don't lose
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  Speaker 1: games fifty six to seven very often when you were
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  Speaker 1: that level of a ten in high school. I'm guessing
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Raola has not really been part of a game
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  Speaker 1: like that at any point in his career. So how
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  Speaker 1: difficult is that to bounce back from a game like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it's difficult. It's not like it's
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  Speaker 2: our last game of the season. We got punched in
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  Speaker 2: the mouth, and it's as simple as that. Address the issues,
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  Speaker 2: fix them, and then move on. But yeah, stung, stung
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  Speaker 2: for the weekend, and it felt good to get back
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  Speaker 2: out there yesterday and kind of you know, cleaning things
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  Speaker 2: up you messed up, and move on to our next opponent.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that's interesting about hearing the other team's press
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  Speaker 1: conferences is sometimes you hear the same basic questions there
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  Speaker 1: that you get at the Ohio State press conference. One
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  Speaker 1: of the stories that was talked about this week and
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  Speaker 1: talked about in previous weeks at Ohio State is the
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  Speaker 1: lack of downfield passing. What they need to do to
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  Speaker 1: get downfield in the passing game more very interesting to
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  Speaker 1: hear the exact same question asked of Dylan Raola. So,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Dylan Roila, what has to happen for Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: to get downfield in the passing game? Board?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it starts with me and and kind of directing things.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a good challenge and you know, look forward
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  Speaker 2: to accepting it. And our guys can run, and I
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  Speaker 2: just have to get do better at getting the ball
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  Speaker 2: do on the field to them and allowing them to
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  Speaker 2: go make plays and showcase their ability. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take that one now, That'll be me.
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  Speaker 1: One other thing that can be common between different programs
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  Speaker 1: is sometimes when you listen to interviews a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: interviews during the same week, you hear a theme develop
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of tell what the coaching staff is
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  Speaker 1: talking about. One of the things that they talked about
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  Speaker 1: with Nebraska players pretty clearly this week is this is
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity. This is an opportunity to come to Columbus
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  Speaker 1: and play a team ranked as highly as Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: and you have an opportunity to stand out and make
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  Speaker 1: the most of that. So, all right, is Dylan real
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  Speaker 1: excited for that opportunity to play a big name defense
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  Speaker 1: this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a great opportunity kind of show
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  Speaker 2: that that we can hang and we can play. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's there's any other way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're just gonna play football, and and regardless
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  Speaker 2: of the opponent we play or where we play, it's our brand,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, we're going to stand by that.
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  Speaker 1: Now we'll move on to Nebraska head coach Matt Rule.
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  Speaker 1: He is, as I said earlier in the week, always
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite interviews at Big Ten media days.
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  Speaker 1: Gives you some real good, straight shooting answers. He was
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  Speaker 1: asked about what the Huskers did to get better in
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  Speaker 1: practice this week.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, there's there's not time in in in game weeks.
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  Speaker 3: The opponents are too good in the Big Ten to
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  Speaker 3: have like these large philosophical you know, like kind of
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  Speaker 3: like what happened with Sat the other day, Like I
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  Speaker 3: don't want Sat worried about the yards per play. I
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  Speaker 3: want to worry about blocking number ninety one from Ohio State, Right,
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  Speaker 3: So you have to be very in the moment. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, you can't really go out there and have
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  Speaker 3: these hey we got to fix you. Just go out
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  Speaker 3: there this week and say, hey, third down, then what
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  Speaker 3: are they gonna do? What are we gonna do? You know?
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  Speaker 3: So I think we had a really good week. You know,
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  Speaker 3: some of the issues in the case game have been
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  Speaker 3: so glaring. Obviously, Sam, you have to kind of fix,
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  Speaker 3: you know, fix some of those things. But uh, we've
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  Speaker 3: been working on those since over the bye week, right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just constantly. But you also have to you
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  Speaker 3: also have to get ready for Ohio State what they do.
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  Speaker 3: So it's there's not a lot of time, not a
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  Speaker 3: lot of reps, you know. So, but I think I
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  Speaker 3: think at the end of the day, we put last
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  Speaker 3: week behind us, we move forward, and we we get
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  Speaker 3: ready for this amazing football team we're playing, and this
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  Speaker 3: amazing opportunity to go on the road. And so I
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  Speaker 3: think we've got better a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: The Buck guys have a running back who is banged
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  Speaker 1: up in quinch On Judkins. We'll see whether he plays
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday against Nebraska. The Huskers have a running back
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  Speaker 1: who's banged up as well, Ramir Johnson. He's been part
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  Speaker 1: of their sort of running back by committee this year
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  Speaker 1: this year. Well, he's not going to be there on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: he is out with an injury. How will that impact
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  Speaker 1: things for the Huskers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Ramierre's a valuable player in every part
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  Speaker 3: of it. You know, some of the big guys, you know,
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  Speaker 3: uh Gabe and uh uh Dante have to step up
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  Speaker 3: in some of the third down situations, which is good
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  Speaker 3: because Ohio State has an excellent pas rust but also
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  Speaker 3: has excellent blitzer, So having bigger men in there in
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  Speaker 3: some ways is a good thing of this week. And
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  Speaker 3: then it's an opportunity for Quinn. You know, Quintin got
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  Speaker 3: on the field and had a big kickoff return, so
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  Speaker 3: it's an opportunity for Quentin to grow his role.
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  Speaker 1: When you're playing a team like Ohio State that has
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  Speaker 1: one of the more talented rosters in the nation and
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  Speaker 1: comes in ranked in the top five in the country,
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  Speaker 1: are there certain things that a team like that forces
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  Speaker 1: you to have to do to win.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have no weakness, you know, they have no weakness.
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  Speaker 3: You know, probably one of the best route top two
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  Speaker 3: or three rosters in football, great coaching staff, great schemes.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's it's just, you know, it's just
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  Speaker 3: one of those deals where you have you have to
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  Speaker 3: go play well. You know, let's start with the simple
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  Speaker 3: things things we talked about all year. When like last
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  Speaker 3: week was the first week we didn't win the turnover battle, right,
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  Speaker 3: So it ends up the way it ends up. So
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  Speaker 3: you come back this week, and you don't reinvent yourself.
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  Speaker 3: You say, hey, we got to win the turnover battle,
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  Speaker 3: you know, coming out of coming out of the bye week.
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  Speaker 3: On offense, we talked a lot about, you know, getting
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  Speaker 3: better on third down. We were seven or sixteen on
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  Speaker 3: third down last week, you know. So I just think
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State's a great team. It's a great opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: our guys. We have a lot of really, really really
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  Speaker 3: good football players. Guys are going to play for a
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  Speaker 3: long time in the National Football League, both seniors and freshmen,
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  Speaker 3: so you have a chance to go out and challenge
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  Speaker 3: yourself against the best and see where you are and
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  Speaker 3: develop it from there. So I don't think it's any
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  Speaker 3: one specific thing Sam rather than have to go play well.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Rule is kind of an analytics guy at heart
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  Speaker 1: in some ways. You see him going forward on fourth
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  Speaker 1: down a lot and doing a lot of the things
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  Speaker 1: that the math nerds will talk about is you've got
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  Speaker 1: to do this more and all that, And I raise
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  Speaker 1: my hand and say like, yeah, that's that's my angle
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of this stuff as well. But is
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  Speaker 1: there something that he pays particular attention to from that
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  Speaker 1: analytics world? You're gonna hear him. By the way, in
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  Speaker 1: this talk about EPA per play, that's something you've probably
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  Speaker 1: heard us talk about at some point in the past,
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  Speaker 1: that is expected points added per play. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to learn more about that, you want to see how
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  Speaker 1: that plays out, A great resource for that is Game
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  Speaker 1: on Paper dot com. All right, We've talked about that
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  Speaker 1: at some point in the past as well, But all right,
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  Speaker 1: here we go, Matt rule. Is there something that you
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  Speaker 1: pay particular attention to when you're looking at those analytics?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I I uh, I'm really more like
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  Speaker 3: down the Bill Connolly world of you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: EPA and stuff like that, like just your yards per
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  Speaker 3: game and things like that. You know, like there's there's
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't pad as much the time on
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  Speaker 3: that maybe as I do some of the other things,
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  Speaker 3: but on defense, have a grate and things like that
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  Speaker 3: matter to me. So I'm really into that whole world.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, that's more of a that's more of
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  Speaker 3: like for me, like a bye week postseason, Like hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to me, when you're in the week, it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: how do I get this guy who's got a hurt
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  Speaker 3: ankle to block that guy? How do I get this guy?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're it's not it's not mad, and you
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  Speaker 3: know and so but in the off season, I think
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  Speaker 3: you build yourself around those things, like, hey, we have
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  Speaker 3: to improve in these areas. The things in season will
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  Speaker 3: really really spend a lot of time on, though, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the things we believe in, like turnover rate and very
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  Speaker 3: very simple things. You know. You know, if I've had
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  Speaker 3: to pick one thing for us, as I said, like
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  Speaker 3: I think Steve Sipple asked me last week, it's just
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  Speaker 3: some more explosive plays, you know. I mean, we'd like
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  Speaker 3: to have more explosive plays on offense. We have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of we have a lot of eight, nine, ten
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  Speaker 3: play drives and that's really really hard to do over
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  Speaker 3: and over and over again. You'd like some you know,
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  Speaker 3: four play drives that result in a touchdown. So that's
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  Speaker 3: where we've been lacking. That's you know, that's where you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to create them, and that's moving forward something
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  Speaker 3: that we have to continue to improve upon.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier that sometimes you pick up a theme while
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to these press conferences from another school. One
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  Speaker 1: of the things I actually didn't play this clip the
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  Speaker 1: first time on Tuesday, and then Matt rul got asked
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  Speaker 1: about it again later on in the week. So, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about perimeter blocking. That has been a big
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  Speaker 1: storyline in Lincoln this week. Is that a concern for
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  Speaker 1: the Huskers coming into Columbus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we we've we've we've challenged, We've challenged
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  Speaker 3: a lot. You know, I think it's to the point
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  Speaker 3: of just it's just reps. It's continued improvement. It's you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're when you when you're st uggling with something, you're
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  Speaker 3: not going to just necessarily always just change it, you know, overnight,
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  Speaker 3: and it's not certainly for a lack of want to
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  Speaker 3: or will. So you know, I think you have to.
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  Speaker 3: You have to just keep coming out every week. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're doing way more of that live, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're trying to work on it, just like
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  Speaker 3: we work on inside run and short yardage. And I
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  Speaker 3: think we're getting better at it. But but you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if we can change completely everything about it.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, we're not changing what we're doing, just
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  Speaker 3: getting the guys to be better and better at it
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  Speaker 3: and more comfortable at it. And uh, this is a week,
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  Speaker 3: where're gonna have to do it right? And when they
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  Speaker 3: with the way that they play, and they're such a
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  Speaker 3: good their offense is such a good perimeter team. They
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  Speaker 3: kicked the ball on the perimeter and block and get yards. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, defensively, we weren't very good last week in
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  Speaker 3: that area. So they coming out of last week, we
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  Speaker 3: understand how how well we have to play in space,
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  Speaker 3: both offensively and defensively.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, Ryan Day and Matt Rule, they actually have
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a common tie. They were both
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  Speaker 1: assistants under Al Golden at Temple for one season. Matt
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  Speaker 1: Rule was asked about his ties to Right and Day
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  Speaker 1: and any other coaches on the Ohio State coaching staff,
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  Speaker 1: and it turned out a bunch. No.
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  Speaker 3: I just had a lot of respect for Ryan. We're
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  Speaker 3: good friends. You know, we were both young assistants together
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  Speaker 3: under Al Golden. You know, I was a d line coach.
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  Speaker 3: He was the receivers coach. And he left after one
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  Speaker 3: year and we had a massive staff overhaul and they
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  Speaker 3: asked Ryan to stay and be the quarterback coach, and
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  Speaker 3: thankfully Ryan said, no, I'm gonna go be the receiver
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  Speaker 3: coach of Boston College. And they moved me from the
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  Speaker 3: D line to be in the quarterbacks coach. So I
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  Speaker 3: was a major break in my career. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: Ryan's done a fantastic job. You know, we're friends. I
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  Speaker 3: went to their pro day a couple years ago when
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't in college, justin Fry, their O line coach,
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  Speaker 3: and I worked together at the second stint. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when Steve A. Dazzio came to be the head coach,
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  Speaker 3: he's a great friend of mine and a great coach.
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  Speaker 3: Been everywhere. Tried to hire when I was in the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: couldn't do it. Larry Johnson, their legendary D line coach,
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  Speaker 3: was a position coach, was the D line coach at
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  Speaker 3: Penn State when I was there. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of ties to that team. They've done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're in the national picture, and I'll be
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  Speaker 3: a great opportunity for us to go play against him,
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  Speaker 3: for me to coach against. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Ruhl and Ryan Day will renew their acquaintances at
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  Speaker 1: noon on Saturday, Buckeys and Husters kicking off at noon.
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  Speaker 1: We will be there for all your pregame coverage, all
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  Speaker 1: your postgame coverage at bucke huddle dot Com as well
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  Speaker 1: as at YouTube dot com slash bucke Huddle. It is
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  Speaker 1: also a very big recruiting week for the Buckeyes, some
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  Speaker 1: very very big names on campus, including five star twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five newly reclassified twenty twenty five defensive end Jackiem Stewart.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of interesting stuff can be coming out this
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  Speaker 1: weekend on the recruiting front, on the team front, and
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  Speaker 1: all that good stuff that is all going to be
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  Speaker 1: coming out this week at bucke huddle dot com. We
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  Speaker 1: hope to see you there. That'll do it for today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.